A lavish train ride unfolds into a stylish & suspenseful mystery. From the novel by Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express tells of thirteen stranded strangers & one man's race to solve the puzzle before the murderer strikes again.

I forgot to post about this when I saw this in theaters and certainly not this week, because the movie isn't even out. I'll do my best to recall my thoughts from a few months ago.

Overall I enjoyed it, but it's not making the top of my 2017 list (I'll update that after this post). I wasn't familiar with the book at all, so I went into the movie pretty cold. I just knew Johnny Depp was in it and there was a murder. I did not think Depp would be the victim and that he would actually have a small role in the movie.

The movie was shot very well. There were a couple of fake long-takes that really stood out, like when Poirot boarded the train and it tracked him to his room. Was a great way to establish the layout of the train. Also the top down shot of Depp's room.

The cast was great, but there were just too many of them. It was hard to feel invested in any of their stories because the 2 hour movie had to explain motives of 12 people. Once the connection was made that they were all effected by Depp murdering a child it was pretty clear they all worked together. I'm ashamed I didn't make that connection at the beginning when they said it was 12 stabs with no rhyme or reason, of course, because it was 12 different people doing it.